I love this episode title. In April 1985, Coca-Cola nearly committed suicide by introducing a reformulated, sweeter version of its flagship beverage. It lasted all of three months before the public outcry helped the company realize that not even the blind taste anything blindly. Branding and loyalty matter.
In that
The Season One theme of Halt And Catch Fire comes in the form of a question: What separates man from machine? The answer, offered with painstaking authenticity over ten beautifully crafted episodes, is that man is searching for something more (before you start singing that awful song by The Killers,
I remember when I was on the outside looking in on the whole amiibo craze. It was insane, right? Lines around the block, people fiendishly hunting figures of their favorite Nintendo characters that turned into killer AI programs when scanned on a Wii U tablet. I held no burning passion
During an Activision-Blizzard investor call, we learned that subscription numbers for World of Warcraft have dropped significantly from the peak numbers we saw during the launch of its current expansion, Warlords of Draenor. This sent a lot of players, some active, some long-since moved on, and some having never put
There aren’t many characters in games that have grabbed me as quickly as Borderlands’ Handsome Jack.
Unlike most fans of this Hyperion dictator, my first exposure to Handsome Jack was through TellTale’s Tales from the Borderlands (which I’m currently reviewing here at Gaming Trend), and in the
Every evangelist of the PlayStation Vita knows it’s a hard sell.
Despite unparalleled power from a dedicated handheld gaming device, the Vita’s lack of mainstream appeal has been no secret since its launch in 2011. What was once pitched to consumers as a “console-quality” handheld has become something
Returning from PAX East 2015, I was completely exhausted. It was an awesome experience, and I learned a lot about tons of different video games and even some nifty technology. I know you want to know which of these upcoming titles you should be keeping an eye on, so without
There’s no arguing that this week is a stacked week in gaming, as many releases have hit that are creating a great deal of buzz in the gaming community. Today, two very different games are on the digital shelves, with two very different stories told very differently. Yet they
